{"id":13206,"date":"2012-12-12T14:16:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T22:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=13206"},"modified":"2013-05-31T18:29:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T02:29:39","slug":"i-hate-church-bullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/i-hate-church-bullies\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate Church Bullies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a guest post by Sam Riviera.\u00a0He\u00a0spends most of his time and energy caring for others in his community so that through his life and actions they might see Jesus. He has also written \u201c14 Reasons I Never Returned to the Institutional Church.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

If you would like to write a guest post for this blog,\u00a0check out the guidelines here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"churchWhen I was in first grade I told my mother that one of the boys in my class was picking on me. Much to my surprise, my mother taught me how to protect myself. She taught me how to hold one arm in front of me to ward off blows while holding a balled-up fist behind it ready to throw a good punch if someone decided to punch me first.<\/p>\n

Only many years later did I learn that no one dared pick on my mother when she was a kid. After mother taught me how to protect myself, no one dared pick on me.<\/p>\n

If only it were that easy to respond to church bullies!\u00a0A few well-placed punches and all the church bullies would stop bullying us for fear of suddenly acquiring a flattened nose.<\/p>\n

How do we identify a church bully? Why do they bully? How can we best respond to them? (Even though they might deserve a flattened nose, I don\u2019t advocate that response.)<\/p>\n

How Do We Identify A Church Bully?<\/h2>\n

Church bullies usually give themselves away by what they say. Often, they might say things like this:<\/p>\n

\u201cA Christian would be at Wednesday night prayer service.\u201d\u00a0(I worked evenings.)<\/p>\n

\u201cA Christian would go to that Sunday school class.\u201d (It was horrible. I\u2019d have preferred going to the town dump to shoot rats.)<\/p>\n

Then there was the fellow who literally tried to physically drag me to an alter to \u201cget saved\u201d. When I protested that I didn\u2019t need to get saved a second time, he pointed out that I had missed church the past two Sundays, proving I wasn\u2019t a Christian. (We were out of state, which he would have known if he had bothered to ask.)<\/p>\n

\u201cAll Christians will vote for ________.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bible (or God) says _______\u201d (Followed by the speaker\u2019s opinions. My friend Kathy Escobar<\/a> calls this the \u201cBible card\u201d and the \u201cGod card\u201d.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lord told me to tell you_____\u201d (Clearly implying that God talks to them, but not to me.)<\/p>\n

There are many additional \u201ccolor of authority\u201d situations, where the person, under the \u201ccolor\u201d of their position in the church (be it pastor, elder, staff member, Bible study teacher, the \u201cI\u2019ve been a Christian for X years\u201d people, the \u201cI\u2019ve studied the Bible for X years and know what it says\u201d people, or whatever), attempts to impose their opinions and wishes on those over whom they somehow attempt to assume \u201cauthority\u201d and control.<\/p>\n

\"bully\"<\/p>\n

Why Do They Bully?<\/h2>\n

Church bullies behave as they do for a variety of reasons. I\u2019ll mention a few reasons I\u2019ve seen and in the comments section perhaps you can mention reasons you\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n

First, church bullies are often people who love to be in charge.<\/strong> They like controlling people. They imagine themselves to be great leaders who are in a unique position to tell others how to live and what to do.<\/p>\n

Second, church bullies almost always like feeling important and knowledgeable,<\/strong> be it about how the church should be run, what God and the Bible say, and how other people should think, live and vote.<\/p>\n

Third, many church bullies are very insecure.<\/strong> Bullying other people seems to \u201cprove\u201d to them that they really are smart, buddies with God, and very knowledgeable about how most things should be done and how life should be lived.<\/p>\n

In this third category I include those whose personal lives are out of control. In real life, their marriage is in a shambles, they\u2019re having an affair, addicted to pornography, stealing from their employer and so on. Of course they believe that their situation is a \u201cone-of-a-kind\u201d exception to the rules they try to apply to everyone else. If they can\u2019t control their own lives, at least they can control the lives of others. (We often discover their underlying issues many years later.)<\/p>\n

Fourth, occasionally we encounter church bullies who are actually mean, evil people<\/strong>, pretending to be otherwise because they\u2019ve found a place (church) where they can get away with their need to bully other people.<\/p>\n

All of these bullies, however, choose churches as places to ply their trade because they\u2019ve discovered that many churches allow them to bully. Those churches seem to believe (often they\u2019re convinced by those who bully), that they should tolerate the bullying because that is \u201cthe Christian thing to do,\u201d \u201ctheir Christian duty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attach a Christian-sounding description to the bully\u2019s behavior (admonishing, instruction, correction and so on), and a Christian title to the bully (pastor, teacher, elder, deacon, \u201cour beloved brother in Christ\u201d or whatever) and suddenly they can almost do no wrong.<\/p>\n

How Can We Respond to a Church Bully?<\/h2>\n

The method that most often works in my experience: Ignore church bullies. Most of them will eventually give up trying to bully us and move on to those who allow themselves to be bullied.<\/p>\n

\"BullyIf the bully will not give up, confront them. Clearly tell them that their behavior (describe it briefly) is unacceptable and we will not tolerate that behavior. Explain what we will do if they do not stop the behavior immediately. That might include talking to the pastor or other leadership. If the pastor or other leadership is the bully, it may include talking to their peers in leadership.<\/p>\n

Confronting church bullies can be terrifying for some of us. If the bully has done his job well, those being bullied will have been taught that confronting the bully is akin to punching God in the nose: God\u2019s going to get really mad if you punch him, and if you confront a church bully.<\/p>\n

There are situations where the bully has solidified his support among those he bullies. He has convinced them that he is always right. Anyone who opposes him is opposing God and the Bible (a sure mark of a church bully). In those situations, the best plan of action may be to leave the group.<\/p>\n

I have heard the advice that one should always tell the church their reasons for leaving. In many situations that is good advice. However, in those cases where we have seen the church bully (bullies) continue to bully from afar those who have left (spreading false rumors about them and why they left), we would be wise to give no explanation. Even if we give no explanation, we should not be surprised if the bully invents an explanation and gives the church that explanation.<\/p>\n

Really, I don\u2019t hate the person who is a bully. I hate their behavior, not only when it is directed at me, but also and especially when it is directed at others. Similarly, I hate the behavior of those, including churches, who allow the bully to ply his trade. Shame on bullies and their supporters for driving people away from churches and away from the Kingdom!<\/p>\n

This is not a comprehensive list. In the comments please tell us about successful ways in which you have dealt with a church bully.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve barely scratched the surface of this topic. This post is not the last word, but hopefully will begin a conversation. Where, when, or how have you seen church bullies in your life, and what did you do about them, if anything?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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